Also, this seems like the kind of situation where no matter what @SenTedCruz might say about it, if these guys *think* he's on their side, he pretty much is.
Virtually indistinguishable from the rise of the Nazis
More than half the Republicans in the House and several Senators went back to the Capitol after the riot and voted in support of these people:
One thing made clear by this piece is that January 6 wasn't a singular event, but in fact a culmination of two months (well, more, but a two-month acute phase) of racist, conspiracy-addled, fascist violence, *obviously* incited by Trump and virtually all of elected Republicans.
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It's the first time the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has all-female leadership.
[adjusts glasses]
Biden said FDR asked his "science advisor" for guidance in 1944.
But there was no such thing. He asked Vannevar Bush, an unofficial advisor. But there was no such thing as a presidential science advisor for another seven years.
If you're following me you're probably aware that the presidential science advisor position is a bit of an obsession for me. Here's the #longread I put up a couple months back on the position's history. It's weird and fun and interesting, I swear.
The big New Yorker thing on covid is very impressive for sure but come on how is table 1 of an academic paper "buried"
lol did none of them read/see The Big Short
Look it's an enormous piece and full of great reporting and I know I'm being Salty Science Writer here but it does have a collection of minor misstatements/mis-characterizations of the science that you aren't likely to find in, say, @edyong209's stories.
Shoutout to all the politicians rapturously memorializing John Lewis today while simultaneously working as hard as they possibly can to restrict voting rights.
I decided to do a bit of a close read of one particular part of a 1965 report sent to Lyndon Johnson, on atmospheric carbon dioxide. Because I hate myself, you see.
They acknowledge that at that point, firm predictions were hard. Okay. But also, this ⬇️.
[mashes calculator furiously]
[checks current CO2 concentration]
Ah, well, shit.
They knew, in 1965, that the 1885-1940 increase in CO2 likely led to half a degree C of warming. Which uh, maybe should have raised a few more alarm bells?
The basic premise of this lengthy piece is that the rapidity of many climate change processes and impacts has shocked -- shocked! -- many scientists, and that their failure to predict well has helped lead us to our current predicament of fucked-ness. But. BUT.